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hoito — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • care noun Serious attention or effort put into avoiding mistakes or harm.
  • cure noun A treatment or remedy that restores health or solves a problem.
  • fling verb To throw something suddenly and with force.
  • medicine noun A substance taken to treat or prevent illness.
  • nurture noun Care and encouragement given to help someone or something grow and develop.
  • one-night stand noun A single sexual encounter with someone, with no intention on either side of seeing each other again.
  • remedy noun Something that fixes a problem or relieves an unwanted condition.
  • score noun The total number of points, goals, or runs earned in a game or contest.
  • therapy noun Treatment intended to relieve or heal a physical or mental condition.
  • treatment noun Medical care given for an illness or injury.

Senses

hoito is used for these senses in English:

  • care (uncountable) Maintenance, upkeep.
  • care (uncountable) The treatment of those in need (especially as a profession).
  • cure A method, device or medication that restores good health.
  • cure An act of healing or state of being healed; restoration to health after a disease, or to soundness after injury.
  • cure (figurative) A solution to a problem.
  • fling A short romantic, oftentimes sexual, relationship.
  • medicine (broadly, countable) Any treatment or cure.
  • nurture The act of nourishing or nursing; tender care

care — full definition

  1. noun Serious attention or effort put into avoiding mistakes or harm.
  2. noun Worry or concern about something.
  3. noun The looking after of someone's health, safety, or wellbeing.
  4. verb To feel concern or interest about something.
  5. verb To look after someone or something (usually with "for").

cure — full definition

  1. noun A treatment or remedy that restores health or solves a problem.
  2. verb To restore someone to health, or to fix a problem completely.
  3. verb To preserve food, typically meat or fish, by salting, smoking, or drying.

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